he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Elegant and lucid . . . a pitch-perfect clarion call, issued not with preachy hubris but from a deep place of humility,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Most of us live our lives desperately trying to conceal the anguishing gap between our polished, aspirational, representational selves and our real,… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It's so much easier to… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that… — Maria Popova Copy Share
Universal WiFi. Without a doubt. I am done with being on the train, not having internet. Or having spotty coverage. It's a fundamental need… — Maria Popova Copy Share
Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety… — Maria Popova Copy Share
But most weeks I've gone through 12 books, maybe even 15 some weeks, depending on the length. So I go through my long form,… — Maria Popova Copy Share
Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world. — Maria Popova Copy Share
What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional. — Maria Popova Copy Share
I didn't really - at least intellectually and creatively - have a particularly compelling experience in college. But during my junior year, they made… — Maria Popova Copy Share
To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them — Maria Popova Copy Share
One of my jobs was at a start-up ad agency. They were trying to do things differently, work with socially conscious clients, and to… — Maria Popova Copy Share
You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle. — Maria Popova Copy Share
Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet… — Maria Popova Copy Share
I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a bad mood… — Maria Popova Copy Share
When I discovered PopTech and other kind of intellectualish, online portals for curiosity. Very quickly, I just got so much more out of those… — Maria Popova Copy Share
